Reply #33: The PG-13 rating was absurd [View All]

[Boomer]

Just a few days before watching F9/11 I caught a horror flick on the Sci-Fi channel that made me blanch -- countless scenes of stiff corpses of people hacked to death, loving pans across blood-splattered walls and floors, and the unrelenting pursuit of nubile teeagers by a maniac trying to kill them. Yes, it was fiction, but the special effects were incredibly realistic and served as the primary visual images for the entire film, which lacked any content beyond moronic dialogue stitching together the chase-and-hack episodes.

I stopped even looking at demos of "action-adventure" video games several years ago -- and I know they are much more "realistic" now -- because the mind-numbing carnage was so appalling.

So why is stomach-churning gore acceptable when it is "entertainment" but not when it is informing us of the true-life horrors that result from our actions?

What I saw in F9/11 was brief, restrained and used in a meaningful context to make an important political statement. I'd rather any child see that film than spend an afternoon watching horror flicks that trivialize violence by using it for idle entertainment.